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Consultant shares draft performance-measurement plan for Whatcom County Justice Project; data gaps flagged
Summary
A VillageReach consultant presented a draft theory-of-change and performance-measurement plan for the Justice Project's 15 component projects, recommending performance and outcome evaluations and flagging significant data gaps that will constrain some indicators.
WHATCOM COUNTY, Wash. — Julia Garrett, a consultant with VillageReach, presented a draft evaluation and performance-measurement plan for Whatcom County's Justice Project on May 12, telling the county's Incarceration Prevention and Reduction Task Force that the draft maps a theory of change across 15 projects and identifies both immediate performance indicators and longer-term impact measures.
Garrett said the draft links near-term operational definitions of success to four higher-level goals: reducing jail bookings, shortening average jail stays, increasing connections to care on release and lowering recidivism. "The main framework being used is results-based accountability: asking the questions of how much did we do, how well did we do…
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